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To the rescue of civilisation man: Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation
In his day Kenneth Clark was an influential patron, art historian, collector, gallery director and broadcaster - and one of …
Weather Coursework Guide
From sun worshipers, cloud gazers and storm chasers to artists who use the weather to explore broader themes and ideas
Seeds of Change
As saplings from Joseph Beuys’s famous ecological project 7000 Oaks come to ºÚÁÏÉç, Ellen Mara De Wachter argues that …
Layered Land: Andy Goldsworthy at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Art & Environment
Focusing on the long relationship Andy Goldsworthy has had with the landscape of the Bretton Estate, the location of Yorkshire …
Are We Dreaming?
The bewildering proliferation of new technologies in the postwar era presented artists with unique opportunities for creative expression. But how …
Audrey and her Goats | Tate Conservation
Donations allow our expert conservation team to care for and restore works in the national collection for the enjoyment of …
Big Mac guilt: Behind the curtain
On his first visit to the Tate archive, the London-based writer Joe Dunthorne finds a Christmas card from Grayson Perry …
Meditations on time: The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean
Over the years Dean’s poetic, meditative 16 mm films have ranged from portrait studies of Merce Cunningham and Mario Merz …
An uncooked perspective on the nature of sex: Sarah Lucas
Since her ironic Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab (1992), which delighted and enraged gallery goers in equal measure, Sarah …
‘Not Incorrect and Particularly Not Irrelevant’: Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen, 1966–71
Between 1966 and 1971, Danish composer Henning Christiansen (1932–2008) appeared in eight of Joseph Beuys’s actions. This article examines the …
Romanticism gets real: British landscape photography
The Romanticism display in the Clore Galleries at Tate Britain features more than 170 paintings and prints, as well as …
Lives of the Artists: Maria Bartuszová
Introducing the Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová, who created extraordinary, delicate and fragile-looking white plaster abstract sculptures whose biomorphic shapes were …
The Pearl Age
Adorned with New World gemstones, Robert Peake’s Lady Elizabeth Pope discloses the global flow of people and resources, writes Momtaza …
Details, Details: Július Koller's Archaeological Monument-Presence (U.F.O.) 1983
An astrophysicist reflects on the alien in the everyday
How to spin the colour wheel, by Turner, Malevich and more
We take a quick skip through colour theory, and how some of modern art's giants have put it into practiceÂ
Q&A: Vivian Suter: Wild at Art
To coincide with her first solo exhibition in the UK at Tate Liverpool, Tate Etc. talks to the Swiss-Argentine artist …
Figure and Landscape: Barbara Hepworth’s Phenomenology of Perception
Barbara Hepworth’s development of the figure in landscape theme to which she turned increasingly after moving to St Ives in …
Spaces Coursework Guide
Busy crowded streets, eerie empty rooms, explore spaces in art
Porous Borders: Pompeii and Transnationalism
‘Pompeii’ and Transnationalism, part of Tate Research publication 'In Focus: Pompeii 1959 by Hans Hofmann' by Emily Warner, published January …